Trump Has Said Privately He May Replace Esper After Election | Talking Points Memo

President Donald Trump has privately said he intends to replace Secretary of Defense Mark Esper after the November election, people familiar with internal discussions told Bloomberg News.


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sorry, abomination, but all you’ll be doing after the election is trying to evade the long arm of the law (unsuccessfully).

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BREAKING: ”Wraithed Ass-Kisser Not Wraithed, Ass-Kissing Enough, Complains Trump.”

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Cue: Operation Destroy DoD Before Biden Can Take Over on Behalf of Vladimir Putin.

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Something something deck chairs titanic.

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Not sure that you replacing him AFTER the election is even an option, given your upcoming landslide loss.

Only if you do it before the Biden / Harris Inauguration (with its record setting crowd)…

How about putting Barron in, just for laughs?

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Bye, Felicia.

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Not really. This is quite disturbing on a lot of levels. One thing if Trump wins (then we’re all fucked), but if he’s doing this anticipating a loss, he’s dropping in some clown friend of Jared’s to do maximal damage before turning the keys over.

Or he’s anticipating trying to use the military to stay in power, something which Esper has clearly held the line on.

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Jared has done a bang up job on the Middle East I’m sure he can handle being sod as well

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Stop the headlines.

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Trump’s right about one thing: Esper’s gonna be replaced after the election.

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“The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.”

― James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison

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Think of Trump as one of those deadbeat renters that trash the place up when evicted, stealing everything that they can carry and destroying what they cant.

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This is because he doesn’t want to take any guff about nuking San Francisco over the Christmas vacation.

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There is no U.S. president who ever wanted to win a second term more than Trump.

Every week we will see a confirmation of that (probably several times per week).

“This is a marathon, not a sprint” never has been more needed as a warning than now.

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I know somebody who worked with Esper at Raytheon, and he assures me that Esper will do the right thing when/if squeezed by †Я☭mp®. (That’s some vague, weak tea, of course, yet Esper is most likely to want to stay within good graces of the socialized comforts of the Mil/Ind Complex and can’t be seen as too Trumpian crazy.)

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Hey, Donnie-Boy, we’re gonna replace YOU on Election Day.

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We’ll take care of that for him.

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Overall he’s done a good job of keeping DoD out of the line of fire.

Of course that’s why trump wants him gone.

He’ll never forgive him for stopping trump from deploying active duty troops equipped with M-4s and bayonets on the streets of D.C.

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